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2022-2023 ADMINISTRATIVE FELLOWS
TeaYoun Kim-Kassor She is originally from South Korea and has a varied background in education; she received academic degrees in S. Korea, Japan, and the U.S. She has been developing her leadership and management skills to embark on transnational education, emphasize the importance of understanding global perspectives in the first-year program curriculum, and focus on helping the team bring out the best in students. TeaYoun's augmented accomplishments as department chair have been balancing numerous administrative roles such as supporting and managing faculty and staff, bridging departments and the campus community, and strategic planning. She wishes to make continuous improvements in strengthening the alignment between institution culture and identifying remaining blind spots, and prompt necessary changes, including promoting efficient and more unbiassed policies and processes and collaborating within and outside of the current organization.
Dr. Justin Sutters is the Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Research and Assessment, Director of the Masters of Art in Teaching (MAT) Program in Art Education, School of Art, George Mason University. He just completed at two-year faculty fellow position as the Co-Chair of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) towards SACSCOC Accreditation and a member of the Reaffirmation Leadership Team (RLT) in the Provosts Office. He is currently an elected member of the Research Commission of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) and has served as the School of Art Liaison on the Mason Community Arts Academy board of directors since 2016. As of August 2022, Dr. Sutters will serve as the Assistant Dean of Research and Assessment in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University.
Monika Meler serves as Head of the Department of Art & Design and Associate Professor of Art/Printmaking at VSU. Previously, Meler served as the Foundations Art Coordinator and Head of Graduate Studies in Art at the University of Saint Francis. She earned her B.F.A. from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD). She continued her studies at Purdue University, where she earned an M.A., followed with an M.F.A from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. While at Tyler, she spent a year studying in Rome, Italy.
V. Kim Martinez is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Utah. She received her terminal degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, she is serving as the Chair of the Department of Art & Art History. Her research concerns visual communication that investigates societal structures that shift/fluctuate between the positive and the negative, the concrete and the abstract, based on direct experience with the challenges of specific locations and situations. Her research record includes over 170 curatorial regional, national, and international exhibitions, and she is the recipient of multiple grants. In 2002, she envisioned a community mural course to provide students with real-world experience in creating and proposing public art in the form of mural designs. Her commitment to innovation and exploration of teaching methodologies are exemplified by an interdisciplinary undergraduate experience at the University of Utah’s Taft -Nicholson Center in Centennial Valley, Montana. The immersive residency incorporates intellectual growth, experimental painting techniques, and an introduction to the ecology of landscapes to foster the development of unexpected ways of ideating the rugged terrain of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to impact students’ conceptual, formal, and sustainability processes. Martinez is the recipient of the College of Fine Arts Faculty Excellence Award, the University of Utah’s Tanner Humanities Center “Professors Off-Campus Project,” and the “Distinguished Innovation and Impact Award. Her commitment to university shared governance reflects her past memberships in the University Academic Senate and Executive Committees. Service to the local community includes multiple arts organization board of directors and gubernatorial appointments to the Department of Corrections and the Utah Correctional Industries Advisory Councils.
Dee Miller is an artist, educator, curator, and writer, originally from Endwell, NY, whose work employs community-engaged, trans-disciplinary collaboration and anti-racist, anti-heterosexist advocacy to center the experiences and “subjugated knowledges” of individuals from marginalized identities. They were invited to serve as Chair of Photography and Associate Professor at the Columbus College of Art & Design in 2019. Dee incorporates a number of innovative strategies into their pedagogy to lead undergraduates and MFA candidates to teach themselves to learn, enabling student autonomy and accountability. They use discussion-based sessions for building cultural literacies and expanding critical capacities. This approach helps emerging artists use their own life experiences to create meaningful content, and it requires the use of techniques from facilitated intergroup dialogue to support equitable and inclusive learning spaces. Dee has curated exhibitions that include works by leading contemporary artists such as Zanele Muholi, Stephanie Syjuco, Yasumasa Morimura, Kara Walker, Alfredo Jaar, James Turrell, Jenny Holzer, Jess Dugan, Vanessa German, Brendan Fernandes, Alisha Wormsley, Clarissa Sligh, Helen Zughaib, Andrea Chung, Dawit Petros, and many others, as well as residency and installation projects with international artists. Theirwriting has been featured in Papersafe, Rice, Sisyphus Magazine, and in numerous exhibition catalogs. In 2019-20 Dee was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to conduct a community art project, Palavras na Minha Boca, at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Bauru, Brazil. Their teaching, curatorial work, and artwork have been recognized through numerous residencies, exhibitions, and acquisitions. Before joining CCAD, Dee served as Director and Curator of the Art Galleries at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. Prior to this, they were Program Director for the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, a non-profit community arts center in Blue Mountain Lake, NY. Dee is a member of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) and the College Art Association (CAA), and served as co-chair of CAA's national Queer & Trans Caucus for Art from 2010-12. They are frequently invited to lecture about their own work, and curate or jury contemporary art and photography exhibitions. Dee Miller received an M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and hold a B.F.A. in Photography and Printmaking from The School of Art & Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, obtained also through study at Manchester Metropolitan University in the U.K. They live and work in Columbus, OH and San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
